March 22, 2012

A Giveaway that RESIN-ates

RESIN-ates. Get it?

Bad plays-on-words aside, let's get to the task at hand: giveaways! So many people are anxious to try resin or get back into it after a hiatus (in some cases, a bad experience - I can relate). We're here to help!
The winner of the Resin Prize Pack is --

BACK TO BASICS
Our #3 giveaway is a tribute to how Beaducation.com got started in the first place: jewelry making classes! You know that we host online video classes on our website, but did you know that 12 of our classes are also available as a DVD? Check 'em out!

This week's lucky winner will receive a 6-DVD box set! The best part is that you get to choose which DVDs you want. That is a $173.70 value, folks! These DVDs are compatible with Mac and Windows computers, as well as your run-of-the-mill DVD player hooked up to a TV. DVD content includes a printable PDF and class prerequisites.To enter the giveaway, leave a comment letting us know what was the first piece of jewelry you ever made. Mine was a beaded friendship pin in grade school. Did I just give away my age?? Want a second chance? Spread the love on Facebook and/or Twitter (and let us know you did). It's a great way to introduce your friends to the wonderful world of handmade jewelry!

Wow that is an amazing giveaway!!The first piece I made was earrings. My friend made a necklace for me and I really wanted earrings to match. So she introduced me to the bead store and showed me how to make them. That was 7 or 8 years ago, I still have the earrings and the necklace and I wear them all the time.

Besides a clover chain when I was little my first piece was when I was at high school I took metal work as a elective and we made a lopsided metal dustpan haha. We experimented with copper enameling and I loved the results and would love to get back into that and learn new skills to compliment it. I think I remember I came away with a necklace from the classes.

These classes all look wonderful & I could really use some...I started beading 2 years ago..I had just celebrated my 75th Birthday and I was going to have a knee replacement, so our son bought me some tools, and a couple of books..He thought it would be good to do while I was recuperating...I want to learn as many different techniques as I can ( while I still can lol)..Thanks for the chance

I have learned a lot from your online classes, and am always excited to learn even more from your great instructors! The first piece of jewelry I made was a clover blossom bracelet in grade school, but the first real piece of jewelry was a simple pair of earrings. You have got to start somewhere; right?

My first piece of jewelry I made was a macaroni noodle necklace. I made it at Vacation Bible School when I was a kid. My mom was gracious enough to wear it. I'm still making stuff for her. How great would it be to expand my skills to make her even more cool stuff!

The first piece of jewelry I can remember making is a shell necklace strung on fishing line with safety pins for a clasp.I am in great need of your soldering DVDs as I finally have the supplies, but have no idea what I am doing.

I've always been making something, with all sorts of media, so I can't remember which was my first piece of jewelry. I think I started playing around with seed beads about 20 years ago, when I was in high school. I still have some of those pieces.

It would be so AMAZING to win this for a relative newbie like me!!! I am always looking for ways to expand on and improve my skills!! The first piece of jewelry I made was a macrame bracelet way back when I was in high school. Thanks for the chance to win!!

Mine was a macrame necklace. I had just learned macrame and was in California visiting a cousin. It was so popular out there and there was so many great bead places for macrame stuff. It was great. I still use macrame some in my Stained Glass, Fused Glass and Mosaic items, plus my jewelry.

First piece I think was with my 7 yr old (who is an accessory fanatic). Her ears aren't pierced, so we figured out how to take pierced earrings and convert to clip-ons. We then started making clip-on earrings from scratch.

What a fantastic prize! I have just been racking my brains trying to think of my first handmade piece of jewellery...and I remembered sitting out on the grass with a bunch of friends at school, when I was about 7 or 8 years old, and we all spent our lunchbreak making daisy chain necklaces, "crowns" and bracelets, which we proudly wore for the rest of the day. I'm pretty sure I was hooked on making pretty things from that time on :)

The first piece of jewelry I made was back in high school. We cut pieces of metal and made charms out of them. Mine ended up looking like a hockey stick and puck. Hopefully I can get better after watching the tutorials on your site!

My first project was a macrame and macaroni necklace I made in summer school in the early 70's. Then I graduated to repair, and I would fix broken jewelry from my family/friends. Now I make all kinds of jewelry, but I love metal work the best!

The first piece of "jewelry" I can remember making was in second grade. It was made out of a roll of life savers and yarn and kind of looked like a doll. I think they were supposed to be ornaments, but I made mine a necklace. I wore it for a long time until I broke down one day and ate the life savers.

Making jewelry is already exciting so to win these CDs would be just awesome. My 1st piece I made was earrings. My friend thought that I might like to try and make something.5 years later I'm still hooked.

Love Beaducation -- The first jewelry piece I made was polymer clay earrings. I did't have a clue as to what I was doing, got a pamphlet, bought the clay and other supplies and made two pairs of earrings. My sister bought a pair and I thought I was the 'bees knees'. This was about 16 years ago. Fell in love with jewelry-making and the rest as they say 'is history'.

The first piece of jewelry I ever fabricated was a copper fan brooch with an amethyst stone. Every time I look at it I chuckle wondering what I was thinking. It was a great challenge that keeps reminding me I can only get better. LOL.

At the advanced age of 29 I started my jewelry making 'career', presenting handcrafted rings and all sorts of things at craft shows in the northeast. I'm now entering my fifth (at least) revival of jewelry creation, and it's been a great ride of MANY years. Hint - you might consider me a legit hippie :-)I love Lisa's book - it's been a great help.

Love your online classes! I've taken a few and given them as gifts to both my sisters-in-law. My first piece of jewelry was a simple necklace from beads given to me by a beading friend. I was inspired to start beading by a guy in Maui who had "retired" from the real world and sold seed bead bracelets, necklaces and anklets.

The first piece of jewelry I ever made was when I had just started working at a local bead shop, and prom was coming up and my boss asked me what I was going to wear. I told her what my dress looked like and she helped me design and make a necklace and earrings. It had a swarovski star in the middle as a pendant with a moon on each side of the star spaced out with blue-ish black faceted oval shaped beads, and the earrings had a star on one and a moon on the other. My dress was black and the top bodice had sequins that shimmered with a colors of a rainbow.

I think the first piece of jewelry I made was some seed beaded, brick stitch earrings. That's all it took and I was hooked. I just had to get every color I could, then on to peyote stitch. Now wireworking, metal working, bead stringing. I've created a monster. I can't help myself. I am...therefore, I must.Belinda :)

The first pieces of jewelry I ever made were rings and bracelets woven out of grass when I was a kid. I'd painstakingly search out the perfect blades of grass and weave them together. My first "real" piece of jewelry was a wire-wrapped bracelet that started my jewelry making journey about eight years ago.

It's been so long ago that I don't remember the first piece of jewelry I made but I do remember making friendship bracelets at one time as a youngster. I'm sorry I can't be more specific but really, it was a LONG time ago!

The first piece of jewelry I ever made was made of real buttercup flowers. My mom showed me how to twine them together. That was many,many years ago. It didn't last too long but it sure was fun. I also posted on my facebook page http://tinyurl.com/y9w9lxj

Wow... what a great giveaway. Thanks a lot for the opportunity... I may not win ;) But, love the idea that someone is gonna get this treat :o)

The very first piece of jewelry I did was actually a simple loop necklace that I tried after watching Lisa's free class on making simple loops. And I fell in love so bad that from being a doctor, I transformed overnight to a jewelry designer... left my job, started learning jewelry designing and am now a full time jewelry designer. Thanks Lisa!!

The first piece of jewellery I remember making was after I visited a bead shop it was with a beautiful blue glass bead which I made a necklace from. I worn it everywhere and wad so upset when I lost it in a changing room. More recently I made a silver ring in a local class it felt brilliant to have made something from a flat piece of silver.

Great competition would love to win to learn more about jewellery making Thanks Claire x

Ok, this is surely giving away my age, but my very first piece was a Hippi love bead set to wear to "WOODSTOCK" ....( MY DADDY WAS A POLICEMAN) who was on duty... and I got to go.... GUARDED of course, I was 14.......lol...But the set was a necklace, bracelet, earrings, ankle bracelet, and a beaded woven halo to wear on my head....all made with seedbeads, leather, some peace symbols, turquoise and teardrop beads from Apache teardrop mines in Arizona.I am Cherokee, so I knew how to do some beadwork, but by the time I got finished with these, I felt like a pro...And I felt like a MILLION dollars, because I got to go to Woodstock...GOOD LUCK to the winner...

I made a necklace in high school Jewelry class, & I still have it. It's a piece of metal painted black with a white Pegasus stenciled in white on it then glazed over. Its hanging on a cord necklace. A few years ago I made my mom a necklace with pieces I found at Walmart for Christmas. Now she wants earrings to match. lol

My first beading project was using dental floss (from the bathroom) and some seed beads I found outside on the sidewalk to make a halter for my little copper horse that I had won at the county fair throwing ping pong balls.

What a great thing to ponder! I think my first actual piece of jewelry that I "designed" and made was a pin in the shape of a butterfly. It was made from sea shells that I had collected on vacation. I must have been seven or eight at the time.

The very first necklace i made was with pop-it beads. However, my first real necklaces and bracelets were made when i was in high school.I would love to have all the cds you have and i love this website.

My first beading project were at Junior Achievement during high school in the 70's. I would love to take an online class. I just got Stamp on Metal book and some stamps from Beaducation. Love that site!

The first jewelry I made were mala bracelets and necklaces for the Syda Yoga Ashram bookstore in South Fallsburg, New York back in the 80's. The head of the jewelry department taught me everything I knew. I loved it... labor of love.

Just want to say - I love Beaducation! My first piece of jewelry I ever made was a large black stained porcelain bead with white slip work swirls and dots on a memory wire necklace covered in black. It happens to be my avatar on my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Lundela

Just posted on facebook. Wow, you take me back. My first 'jewelry' making expedition was deciding that I could make my own beaded stich markers for knitting. I went to the local bead store for supplies and immediately signed up for several bead-weaving bracelet classes - as well as getting rings and beads for the markers. 15 Years ago and I haven't stopped yet! Vicki J

The first piece of jewelry I made was some memory wire bracelets after my grandmother passed away. I used my grandmother's favorite jewelry pieces and divided these up among the bracelets and gave the bracelets to all her great grand-daughters.

i grew up in hippie times like some of the others and i lived in a beach town with a busy boardwalk ( still do) i would make seed bead bracelets with stretchy cord or fishing line and sell them from a towel in the sand. i am still making jewelry and selling it ( now on the docks) to another generation of tourists. i would love love this prize there is so much i want to learn!! debi/ oc106@aol.com

i grew up in hippie times like some of the others and i lived in a beach town with a busy boardwalk ( still do) i would make seed bead bracelets with stretchy cord or fishing line and sell them from a towel in the sand. i am still making jewelry and selling it ( now on the docks) to another generation of tourists. i would love love this prize there is so much i want to learn!! debi/ oc106@aol.com

The first piece of jewelry I made was a necklace made from the colorful, glossy pictures from magazines. My sister and I cut out triangles and rolled each one up on a tooth pick like a crescent roll. We glued the ends and strung them with a needle and thread. Thrifty, fun, and it kept us busy!

My very first piece of jewelry I made with Friendly Plastic about 18 years ago when the stuff first came out. It was fun but I took it to a flea market to sell and after a day in the sun it wasn't very impressive, lol!

My first legitimate piece of jewelry was a seed bead and leather amulet necklace I made in grade school. My school began allowing kids to get in touch with their cultural heritages. Mine, Native American Ojibwe (Chippewa). Before that, rolled up wallpaper bead necklaces that I made for my mom for mothers day as a young child.

The very first piece of Jewelry I made was a barrette with pony beads, leather lace and a concho. I saw these at a flea market for $16.00 and I knew I could make them for a lot less than that. I've got long hair and barrettes are a part of life.

The first piece of jewelry I ever made was a seed bead rosette hanging from a daisy chain when I was in the first grade. Before that I made beaded and sequined Christmas ornaments with my Mom. Once she discovered my talent she started buying all kinds of kits, lol. Even right this minute I have some silver tumbling to use in a necklace for her! :D

My first class and first piece of jewelry I made was a jumpring bracelet with dangles made out of 10 or 12 gauge jumprings! My hands were beat up and practically bleeding by the end of class and I was so discouraged. Thankfully I have since taken classes from great teachers like Lisa who show me techniques in a manner that keeps me coming back for more. Unfortunately I live on an island with no classes - love those beaducation classes and sure could use those DVDs!

I was introduced to beading by a dear friend. The first piece of jewelry I made was a bracelet, I then had to try my hand at earrings and from there I have moved on to wire wrapping, metal stamping and PMC. I'm hooked!

The first jewelry I made was when I was in my 50s. I lived in NM and was going to visit a friend in Canada who asked me to bring her some beads from NM. When I went shopping for her, I took one look at all the lovely stones and colors and was hooked. She taught me to make some simple earrings and I haven't stopped yet (I'm 72 now)!

The first piece of jewelry I ever made was a landyard for my friend Edith. Edith was responsible for getting me into beading. My then 4yr old daughter and I were visiting Edith at the time. Edith gave me a huge pile of beads to keep my daughter entertained. My daughter and I made Edith a landyard that night for Edith's work ID. That began my thirst for jewelry technique....haven't stopped since..my daughter is 16 now!

If you don't count the projects teachers make you do in school (preschool - string wooden beads on a string...or string cut straws and flowers to make a lei)...I'd say my first jewelry piece was a daisy chain bracelet. I ordered the book via a mail catalog, bought the beads at the local craft store, then got to making bracelets. Once I realized that I had to also buy some clasps (2nd trip to craft store), I made them for myself, my sister, and all my friends. My mom wasn't too happy, as I used a lot of dental floss. :-)

The first piece of jewelry I made was a wire beaded ring from a kit I purchased at a Native American gift shop when my family was on vacation in the Southwest. I was only 5, but have been beading ever since!

My first piece of jewelry was a pair of "bamboo" type earrings made from widdled sticks I found in my backyard, used a small drill bit out of my dad's tool box to drill out the centers, coated with clear nail polish,put a hole through the top and added hooks!!

The first thing I ever made was a loom beaded Native American bracelet that I never finished ( but still have.) I did not know how to finish the ends and so I did not. I love the pattern and colors and even though it is unwearable, I take it out and admire it sometimes.

Just like some of the others, the first piece of jewelry was a bracelet made from gum wrappers! I also had them in a huge chain and hung them from my bedroom ceiling - right along with my straw chain! wow, that was a "few" years ago!

My first piece of jewelry was a necklace made from buttons and beads (from my Grandma's glass jar stash), We would put them on string wear them all day then unstring them, back in the jar , until the next visit and more fun.Diana

When I was about 8, I saw a movie with Sidney Portier called "A Patch of Blue" about a blind girl who had a box with small compartments filled with beads that she would string. I just had to have one so, I made one. My mother gave me a couple of necklaces she didn't wear and I took them apart and made my very first necklace!

So excited about this weeks giveaway - 6 jewelery making dvd's!Oh can't wait to learn and share some new techniques.

My very first piece of jewelry was a macaroni necklace that I made for my mom when I was about 5. I was quite proud of that necklace, even painted the inside of the macaroni in a contrasting color from the outside. My mom has a picture of herself wearing it to some family function. Great memories!

I have also posted this on my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1644145957

Funny thing is, it was never my idea to get into jewelry-making. The first piece I ever made was a beaded bookmark, because my friend wanted to make one. She was taking so long picking out her beads, while I was shopping for candles, I finally joined her and picked out some for myself. We made our bookmarks together and I was hooked!

I'm sure my first piece of jewelry was a macaroni necklace, but I really got into making jewelry as an adult and mom. Having kids gave me "permission" to embrace my inner artist! I haven't looked back since.

I think my first piece was a beaded necklace about twenty years ago and I was hooked. It wasn't until a couple of years ago I discovered working with metal and other mediums and I am again hooked on learning new stuff!

I think my first piece was a beaded necklace about twenty years ago and I was hooked. It wasn't until a couple of years ago I discovered working with metal and other mediums and I am again hooked on learning new stuff!

My first piece of jewelry that I made was a plaster bracelet that I made in art class in eighth grade. It was way too thick and heavy, but it had the chunky look that I still love today, (44 years later!)

The first piece of jewelry I made was a FIMO clay pin, a joint project with my pre-schooler. It was part of a huge collection of FIMO objects and art pieces my son made nearly 20 years ago that I still enjoy.

Play-Doh rings and bracelets made us "princesses"! LOL I discovered a rock shop in the '80s and started gluing drops into caps for earrings. . . eventually made my way into wire-wrapping,silversmithing, lampworking, seed beading, stamping and pretty much anything else to adorn us princesses-with-50-years-of-experience! : ) It's all good!

oh my, so long ago I don't recall for sure, but certainly one of the first was a bird pin made by weaving together some sort of shiny fringe-like material. I would make those and sell them to my mom's friends. Haven't seen that stuff in many years!

Congratulations to Helen! This a great contest... My first piece of handmade jewelry was a braided silver ring, as part of a summer community park & recreation jewelry-making class. It came out lopsided/flattened on one side. But I loved it. You could see what I was going for on the "good" side. I was way out of my depth with my idea, but working and making something based on idea has (and still does) attract my attention. I have been trying to get back to jewelry making for years. Never have time (and sometimes, Money) for classes and materials, the DVDs seem to be a wonderful opportunity to help start-up.

Growing up in South Louisiana, we always had a lot of clover in our yard. The first piece of jewelry I made was a necklace made out of the white pom-pom looking flowers my friends and I would pick from the clover. They had long stems and we would tie them together to make necklaces! Many years later...I started making "real" jewelry, and my first piece was a mother's bracelet with pearls and silver balls! Now I like to make just about anything!!

My first piece I made was a pair of sterling silver wire earrings. I formed the wire into a free form spiral, and tapped the ends a a little, added a crystal bead. To this day they are my favorite earrings.

sorry if this posts twice - I think the first piece I can remember was a bracelet on a bead loom. Likely there was something before that - probably made of cardboard as I have always loved jewelry. By the way, I already have purchased many of your classes and love them all - you guys are great!